Cutaneous follicular center B-cell lymphomas are indolent tumors characterized by the presence of neoplastic follicular center cells. They contain a mixture of centrocytes with a variable number of centroblasts. The tumor is usually treated by surgery or radiotherapy, although other treatments may be used such as interferon-alpha, chemotherapy, and biological agents (rituximab). Rituximab is a ...

We report a case of primary squamous cell cholangiocarcinoma. A 62-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with right upper quadrant abdominal pain and jaundice for 2 weeks. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) confirmed a soft tissue mass at the common hepatic bile duct (CHD). Magnetic resonance cholangio pancreatography (MRCP) revealed luminal stenosis of the CHD with dilation of both intra...

Bezoars represent the fifth most frequent cause of acute small bowel obstruction. Phytobezoar is the most common type of bezoar. It is a concretion of undigestible fibers derived from ingested vegetables and fruits. We report a case of a woman with a 1-year history of recurrent epigastric and periumbilical abdominal pain with intermittent vomiting caused by phytobezoar of the terminal ileum. Af...

PURPOSE To report the treatment effect of interstitial brachytherapy for abdominal wall metastases of ovarian cancer. MATERIAL AND METHODS The patient is a 44-year-old female with a diagnosis of stage IA ovarian cancer. After surgery and two cycles of chemotherapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin, the patient noticed dull pain in the lower abdomen and found a mass located in the subcutaneous t...

A 71-year-old male patient was readmitted to our hospital 1 month after discharge because of relapse of abdominal pain. He had been diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) 1 year prior and had undergone repeated transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and radiotherapy. During the last hospitalization, he was diagnosed with a liver abscess complicated by previous treatments for HCC and wa...

Small cell ovarian carcinoma of the pulmonary type is a rare and highly aggressive tumor for which a suitable treatment strategy has not been established. A 45-year-old woman presented with abdominal swelling, and primary ovarian carcinoma was suspected. The postoperative pathological diagnosis was small cell ovarian carcinoma of the pulmonary type. She also had complicated grade 1 endometrioid...

Abstract Introduction Intraperitoneal meshes pose a potential risk of complications, either due to the material itself or method fixation. Enteric fistulas are rare but serious complication following repair an abdominal wall reconstruction using intraperitoneal prosthesis. Case report We present 59-year-old male patient, who underwent surgery 5 years previously for urothelial carcinoma with rad...

Background and Importance: Inflammatory pseudotumors are benign tumors-like lesions of unknown cause. The most familiar sites for inflammatory pseudotumors are the orbit and respiratory tract. An inflammatory pseudo tumor of costo-vertebral junction is rare. Case Presentation: We presented here a 50-year-old male with two month history of progressive left cervico-brachial pain. The MRI&nb...